Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1915 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The girls’ sew club will meet with Miss Cecil Morgan Thursday afternoon. The funeral of Mrs. Addrean Casto was held today, burial being made in Milroy cemetery. Order home-made bread and other cooking of Mrs. John Frey, Phone 636. The first shipment of condensed milk, lard and rice which is to be sent to the children of Germany and Austria, as first class mail, has been turned over to the 'postoffice department. Home-made bread and cookies. ?hone 636. Eluding three watchmen guarding the building, a thief gained entrance to the Art Institute of Chicago Saturday and escaped with a collection of rare jewels valued at between $35,000 and $50,000. Home made, sounds good, don’t it ? Try an order from Phone 636. The national republican and democratic congressional committees will be elected and organized early in January, and within a month they will have outlined and begun their campaigns for the election of congressmen. We have a nice, clean burning lump coal at $4.00 per ton. —D. E. Grow.

Icy pavements at Indianapolis caused one death and two injuries .Saturday. Charles Dickson, a negro, 35 years old, fell and fractured his skull, dying later. One man fell, injuring his back. Another suffered a broken collar bone. Nice selection of pure toilet articles, for sale at Mrs. Purcupile’s. Between 1,100 and 1,500 iron molders employed in foundries in Pittsburgh and vicinity are on a strike as part of a nation-wide movement for an eight hour day. The men demand an eight hour day at the same rate of pay as now’ received for nine hours. The Home Grocery is showing a very fine line of Christmas candy. It will pay you to look at out' line and get our prices before you buy your Christmas treat. The American National Bank of Lafayette is today distributing 5,000 checks, amounting to $125,000, to members of their Landis Christmas Savings Club, a nice little sum to distribute among the merchants at this season of the year. The famous Pittson hard coal is sold by Hamilton & Kellner. Charles Fleming, of .Brook, was a Rensselaer visitor today. Mr. Fleming is president of the Newton County Poultry Association. He states that the Newton county poultry show will be from January 20th to 24th, inclusive, and invites all bird owners of this county to enter the Newton county show. Mr. Fleming has entered birds in the Jasper county show for the past several years. TWO-SEVEN-ThkEE —Phone this number if you want good hard or soft coal. Kewanna Herald: The Smart Alecks from Chicago who come out to the email towns to make a Roman holiday but of every Sunday, rip our roads to helangone, ravage farmers’ property, run horses and buggies into the ditch, drive our own moderatetraveling autoirts off the road, strew our beautiful country high Wavs with empty beer bottles and otherwise make life miserable for our own people, ought to get short shift at the hands of officers of the few in every town and tfty.